AUSTIN – The State Bar of Texas Office of Minority Affairs will
present the 20th anniversary of the Texas Minority Counsel Program,
“Inclusion in a Global Economy,” Oct. 3-5 at the Westin
Houston, Memorial City.

The event will provide informational interviewing opportunities,
networking, client development and continuing legal education for
minority and women lawyers and in-house and outside counsel. Visit www.texasbar.com/TMCP for more
information.

In addition to a stellar speaker lineup, the Corporate Counsel of
the Year Award will be presented to the individual who has done the
most to open doors for Texas minority and women attorneys by promoting
diversity within his or her department or company, and by consistently
hiring minority and/or women attorneys in private practice to perform
legal work on behalf of the company.

The Trailblazer Outside Counsel of the Year Award will be presented
to the individual who has done the most to promote diversity within the
legal profession through hiring, retention and mentoring of minority
and/or women attorneys, partnering with minority and women owned law
firms, and involvement with bar or community activities designed to
promote diversity within the legal profession.

The Texas Minority Counsel Program was created in 1993 with the
mission of increasing opportunities for minority and women attorneys
who provide legal services to corporate and government clients, and to
expose those organizations to top legal talent.

The State Bar of Texas is an administrative agency of the
Supreme Court of Texas. The Bar provides educational programs for the
legal profession and the public, administers the minimum continuing
legal education program for attorneys, and manages the attorney
discipline system.